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| author | Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> | 2011-08-08 23:44:00 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2011-08-15 18:31:37 -0700 |
| commit | ef81bb40bf15f350fe865f31fa42f1082772a576 (patch) | |
| tree | f89c3e9616127d234207a84e108bf147cc393215 /Documentation/printk-formats.txt | |
| parent | eb473dd5ad8785d35142966cdcd6896d8dff5a22 (diff) | |
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ipv6: make fragment identifications less predictable
[ Backport of upstream commit 87c48fa3b4630905f98268dde838ee43626a060c ]
Fernando Gont reported current IPv6 fragment identification generation
was not secure, because using a very predictable system-wide generator,
allowing various attacks.
IPv4 uses inetpeer cache to address this problem and to get good
performance. We'll use this mechanism when IPv6 inetpeer is stable
enough in linux-3.1
For the time being, we use jhash on destination address to provide less
predictable identifications. Also remove a spinlock and use cmpxchg() to
get better SMP performance.
Reported-by: Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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